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In the news | Asian Scientist
The AI Spring is Coming
The corporate vice president at Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific R&D Group, and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia is confident that AI will transform every sector of industry, and even challenge our understanding of ourselves.
Stack of Microsoft researchers earn distinctions from premier computing society
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research Eight computer scientists at Microsoft research labs around the world have been honored as Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. The organization also named five Microsoft researchers to…
Five Microsoft researchers have been named as Distinguished Members of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. The honors recognize the individuals’ significant contributions and impact to computer science across a range of disciplines and highlight the…
In the news | Asia Faculty Summit
Asia Faculty Summit 2016 – AI and Psychology
Gaining an in-depth understanding of users is critical for building artificial intelligence systems. With the rapid development of positioning, sensing and social networking technologies, large quantities of human behavioral data are now readily available.
Top PhD students gather at Microsoft Research Asia PhD Forum 2016
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Since its inception in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) has anointed nearly 400 top researchers with the coveted honor of “Microsoft Research Fellow.” Some of them recently returned to Beijing, sharing…
Events in Seoul foster artificial intelligence discussion and collaboration
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia More than 1,700 students and faculty members attended the 18th annual Computing in the 21st Century Conference 2016 last week in Seoul. It was the second time the conference, organized…
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft researchers release graph that helps machines conceptualize
On Tuesday, a team of scientists from Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s research lab in Beijing, China, announced the public release of technology designed to help computers conceptualize in a humanlike fashion. The Microsoft Concept Graph, as it is known, is…
Bots generate video titles and tags to bring AI researchers one step closer to visual intelligence
By Winnie Cui, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia When your grandma posts a video to the cloud, there it lies, lonely and unwatched, unless your grandmother has more tagging and titling skills than mine does. My nana loves…
Boosting fitness and workplace performance looks to machine learning for answers
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research A field study exploring the usability of integrating fitness equipment into a workstation environment has researchers looking to tap next-generation machine learning innovations to address the seemingly elusive challenge of burning…